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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject:

The only posts I don't finish are the ones that I start typing and then realize I am making a lame comment or joke. I have tried to stop posting when I am saying the same thing as the people above me.

Unless I am post whoring of course.

Can I ride?_________________Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael

the only reason stick driving is still around is that it increases the profit margin on automatic gears and lets them market it as an extra. Mechanically it's not a pretty system, since you have to carry the force over a large distance and you need to make the force required as low as possible. On top of that it induces an extra risk because you simply have more things to do instead of watching traffic and there's a big metal stick coming up through the floor which isn't very safe in crashes (measures are taken against this but it's pretty costly). Even formula-1 drivers have semi-automatic, sort of

the only reason stick driving is still around is that it increases the profit margin on automatic gears and lets them market it as an extra. Mechanically it's not a pretty system, since you have to carry the force over a large distance and you need to make the force required as low as possible. On top of that it induces an extra risk because you simply have more things to do instead of watching traffic and there's a big metal stick coming up through the floor which isn't very safe in crashes (measures are taken against this but it's pretty costly). Even formula-1 drivers have semi-automatic, sort of

...Can't help but disagree. I find I'm more likely to zone out driving our big automatic Impala then the small standard Corola. See, that argument should make sense, except that once you learn to drive stick and become good at it, it becomes second nature, and you no longer need to think about it. End result is that I tend to be more aware and more focoused driving the Corola, because I have to focous to shift, but it doesn't actually distract me._________________Forcibly adopted by Varst...
-WooJ!-

Once you're into the shifting thing, you'll shift without even realizing it, just becuse it's needed.

Of course, rowing down the street gets to be a pain in the ass._________________A government's principal occupation lies in curtailing and eliminating the natural freedoms of its citizens and then flimflamming them into paying for the service. ....Thorax